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The RE Podcast

Louisa Jane Smith

The RE podcast for students and teachers.

religion & spirituality education for kids

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S14 E6 The One About Decolonising the New Testament

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2025/02/14

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! To continue on our theme of making our schools and curriculum representative and inclusive, I speak to Dr U-wen Low from the University of Birmingham about how to read the stories in the new Testament without a colonial lens. We focus in this episode on Jesus and Phliemonand will do a further episode on the book of revelation. The episode is going to take a hermeneutical look at specific texts and how they can be interpretted to either be pro or agai...

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50:19

S14 E5: The One About Islamophobia

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2025/02/07

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! 1st February was National Hijab Day! This episode is a detailed exploration of Islamophobia with Bismha Afzal, Schools Coordinator with Educate Against Islamophobia (EAI). We talk about what Islamophobia, what it looks like in modern Britain and how we as educators can tackle it. It is a whole school thing, not an RE thing so please share with your colleagues. Bismah referenced so many helpful resources. Here are the relevant links; Islamophob...

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49:50

S14 E4: The One About The Sea Of Faith Network

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2025/01/31

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! Have you heard of Don Cupitt? Of Big Ideas for RE? Or maybe you have used the In Converstations webinars! This only skims the surfaces of what the Sea Of Faith Network does to support the RE Community! The Sofia publication, regional meetings, the Sea of Faith conference, Solarity... We are so lucky to have this network who provides a space for people to have conversations about the human experiences free from the bias' of fundamentalist ...

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S14 E3 The One About Interfaith Week

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2025/01/24

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message!Today's episode is a delightful chat with Stacey Burman and Carrie Alderton about all things interfaith. And when I say all things, I mean ALL THE THINGS!The history and purpose of Interfaith Week and why it is so important.How we can get involved as a community a school and a teacher.Where we can go for resources.But also, how this is part of a bigger picture of Interfaith Education which should permeate schools, communities and RE classrooms? ...

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53:25

S14 E2: The One About FoRB (Freedom of Religion or...

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2025/01/17

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message!This chat is just what we need to reinvigorate us as we start a new term, cold, exhausted from festive celebrations, still arriving and leaving in the dark, with depleted VItamin D reserves. This episode will give you an hour to be reignited and reinvigorated about the amazing work we all do and what is possible and help us start a new term with renewed energy.We look at what FoRB is and what it isn't, trauma informed ways of dealing with ...

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61:31

S14 E1: The One About AI

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2025/01/10

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message!Happy New Year 2025 and the 5th year of The RE Podcast. And welcome to season 14 of The RE Podcast which is shaping up really nicely. The first half of the season will focus on how we embrace a multi-religious society looking at Islamophobia, Interfaith week, Freedom of Religion or belief and the Sea of Faith Network. Then I am going to explore some smaller religions like The Tao and Shinto. Can't wait to share all this with you. But first asn e...

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53:23

S13 E12: The One About Motherhood (Christmas Special)

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2024/12/20

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message!To help you celebrate the end of the longest term of the year, to get you in the festive spirit, to shine a beacon to parents, particularly mothers, as we focus on the amazing story of Mary, the mother of Jesus and the central role she plays in the Christmas story, I bring you tidings of great joy!This last episode of the season, and of 2024, is a spotlight on two RE teachers as they talk about juggling motherhood with their careers. Naila Missous, an...

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55:02

S13 E11: The One About The Psychology Of Religion

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2024/12/13

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message!In a move towards multidisciplinary RE, I wonder if you are stuck on how to teach through a social sciences lens - particularly through a psychological lens. Maybe you are not sure what the psychology of religion is, or how to incorporate it into your lessons. Or maybe you have started to explore but have become overwhelmed. Dr Carissa Sharp is an associate professor of Psychology of Religion from The University of Birmingham and she came on to ...

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S13 E10 The One About The Woolf Institute

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2024/12/06

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message!If any of you want to look at how you can teach the complex socio political tensions between the Abrahamic faiths, or are teaching about interfaith relations, or maybe you want to draw out a feminist lens in your classroom, then please draw on the amazing research and services offered by the Woolf Institute.A link to all the elements we spoke about are below;www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/community-engagement/educationIn-Person and Online Visits to SchoolLiving ...

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38:52

S13 E9: The One About Tisha B'Av

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2024/11/29

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message!This may be something you have never heard of, it is certainly a new piece of subject knowldge for me. Tisha B'Av, which translates as the 9th of Av is an annual fast day in Orthodox Judaism which takes place at the beginning of August. It serves to remember the Jewish suffering from the past - specifically the destruction of the first and second temple which are said to have happened on Tisha B'Av. This is a day when many Orthodox Jews fa...

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S13 E8 The One About Atheism

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2024/11/22

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message!One thing we love is the messiness of RE! In the current worldviews approach we embrace this messiness and strive to accurately the diversity within worldviews. In this episode I speak to Dr Lois Lee, senior lecturer at the University of Kent. We look at the diversity of belief within the Nones - an area which called fall prey to simplifications if we are not careful. Lois and I discuss how to authentically represent atheism an...

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S13 E7 The One About The Institute For The Impact Of...

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2024/11/15

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message!https://iifl.org.uk/Faith's transformative power takes center stage as we welcome Dr. Jake Scott, Director of the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life. Join us for an enlightening conversation on how faith is not only surviving but thriving amid growing secularism and religious diversity in the UK. Discover how historical influences and modern movements are shaping a society that values faith as a cornerstone for moral enrichment and societal goo...

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54:50

S13 E6 The One About Mental Health and Faith

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2024/11/08

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message!What happens at the intersection of faith and mental health. Can a personal faith support you through this or create an extra layer to navigate as you try to reconcile your experience with a loving God. In this honest, authentic and hopeful conversation, I ask Claire Gough about her lived experience of being a Christian with depression, anxiety and disordered eating. We consider how is depression and anxiety specifically difficult as a Chr...

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S13 E5: The One About Social Media Theology

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2024/10/11

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message!One of the things I love doing this podcast is it introduces me to things I didn't know were a thing but love learning about. This chat with Rev Pippa White is so significant for many reasons. For Christians, this is a real challenge to them for whether they are inhabiting the spaces of the younger generation. Jesus used the common communication tool of the time to communicate his message.For teachers, this is about The Great Commission in...

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The One With The Jihadist REINCARNATED

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2024/10/04

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message!This is one of my favurite episodes because of how powerful, emotional and authentic it was. I chat with former Islamist - Sohail Ahmed. His story is true, honest and relatable as he tells us what led him to become an extremist and what eventually led him to leave that life behind. It's linked to identity, sexuality, atonement, purpose and belonging! It reveals the misconceptions regarding extremists, what to teach our children and what to look ...

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The One About Interpretting Genesis REINCARNATED

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2024/10/03

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message!In rememberance of LGBTQIA History Month, we remember this GLORIOUS chat with Rev. Andy Fitchet, we look at the damage that traditional and literal interpretations of Genesis have had on women and LGBTQIA Christians. Andy talks openly about his own difficult journey and the dangerous practices of the Church to heal people of 'gayness'. We discuss homosexuality, gender, sexism, hypocrisy. grinder and Jesus as a trans male. Andy is so theolo...

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57:14

The One With The Reverend Steve Chalke Part 1...

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2024/10/02

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message!To continue with the 4th Anniversary celebrations of the RE Podcast, I want to reincarnate some of my favourite episodes.To start here are the chats with the Reverend Steve Chalke from season 2, and the one on restorative justice from season 7.Not only is Steve one of my childgood heroes, I love what he says about love and salvation and homosexuality and crime and punishmentSupport the showFind out more;Twitter: @TheREPodcast1Insta: @TheREPodcastWebis...

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4th Anniversary of The RE Podcast Episode

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2024/10/01

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message!In this episode I look back over the first 4 years of The RE Podcast using questions from you lot. And it's an occupational habit that RE teachers ask great questions! Giles Gough - What for you, is the best and worst part of podcasting?Karen Steele - What’s been your favourite RE podcast? Also, what inspired you to start; where did you find the courage?MissM - What's been a conversation you've had for your podcast that has altered something you ...

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4th Anniversary special Season 12 clips

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2024/09/30

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message!This is my very special summary of season 12 which started with a timely episode about how to revise, a deep dive into sources of authority in Islam, humanist funerals, a chat with Mary myatt, one about the REC and the handbook, sentientism, fostering curiosity, fallacies in arguments, veganism, re resources, miracles, and gay marriage. My thanks to all my season 12 guests; Waqar Ahmedi and Zameer Hussain, Ed Finch, Mary Myatt, Ed Pawson and Sara...

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4th Anniversary special Season 11 clips

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2024/09/29

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message!This is my very special summary of season 11 of The RE Podcast which started with a mini series on the sermon on the mount, then a deep dive into the REQM, an episode about the Veda’s, one about Quakerism, a lovely chat with Lat Blaylock, another with the people at NATRE, a look at the national content standard, one about social Catholic teachings, a chat with the people from CTVC who bought us TrueTube and the Pilgrimage series and the season ended w...

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